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it's time for Rabbi Minka wits weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight
rabbi Minka wits welcome to this week's
Torah lesson this week's Torah portion
is Pontius Noah the question of the week
is why is it important to speak
positively so in this week's Torah
portion poshest no luck the torah begins
and says as follows Ella told us these
are the offsprings of Nowak and then it
goes on to say Noah was a righteous man
and he was a complete man and he
followed God and then first in the next
verse it starts speaking out the
children so all the commentaries asked
why are you giving all these beautiful
anecdotes about Noah and even though
it's very very nice but you said you're
talking about his children or you should
continue talking about his children
during explains a powerful insight based
on a piece of Talmud that says as
follows that when someone speaks Russian
hurrah what does that mean he speaks
about somebody else not necessarily so
nice whether it's true or not it's
irrelevant that the Talmud tells us the
person that says the nice thing will
suffer from it the person that's
listening will suffer from it and the
third the person that are talking about
also suffer from it so the Rebbe asked
the person that speaks not nice we can
understand why he should get affected
he's talking about nice the person
that's listening we understand also
because the fact is he's lost something
he said listen I don't want to hear it
but the person in the innocent you and
being there talking about why is he at
fooled that two people are talking about
him and the Rebbe explains because that
is the power unfortunately of the tongue
when someone says something negative it
affects the person saying it the person
listening if and unfortunately even the
person they're talking about however we
know that the power of good is always
greater than the power of negativity so
in other words just like when a person
speaks negative of something up somebody
it affects all three in a negative way
how much more so when you speak
positively about somebody else even if
the person is not here the person that's
saying it obviously is in a great space
and he's doing beautiful things by
talking positive versus listening is
hearing something nice and positive and
the person that taught me about also
feels a positive energy is blessed by it
so the revenue you
explains this is why in this week's
Torah portion it speaks about no alcohol
as qualities because we're going to be
dealing with from this week's Torah
portion no one has a lot of challenges
ahead of him he's dealing with a whole
community that he's trying to inspire to
repent and the whole community is trying
to get him
obviously on their side to go against
God so Noah needed some spiritual power
so God came along said guess what I'm
gonna give him the power by what Noah
satanic he's a complete man he follows
the God and by saying that obviously an
effective Noah in a way that he got
positive energy that he was able to
overcome and deal with all the
challenges of that took place in this
week's Torah portion so to answer the
question why should you speak positively
because when you speak positively you're
in a great space the person that you're
talking to is in a great space and it
also affects the person you're talking
about in a beautiful way this week's
Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory
of Barack Benari laven Ben Yosef
may their souls be elevated by the Torah
was studying in their memory thanks so
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